NAVARRO Vineyards

2014 Pinot Blanc, Mendocino: Young and pretty 2013 White Roan, Mendocino: Horse of a lighter color 2013 Riesling, Anderson Valley: Waste not, want not 2013 Gewürztraminer, Cluster Select Late Harvest: Sugar babies 2014 Rosé, Mendocino: Downstreamer 2013 Navarrouge, Mendocino: More Pinot please 2012 Syrah, Mendocino: Horse of a darker color 2012 Grenache, Mendocino: Red at a full gallop 2012 Mourvèdre, Mendocino: New dude in the neighborhood Pennyroyal Cheese: Maternity leave OUR 2015 SPRING RELEASES

Facing future Next time you’re in Mendocino, please drop by and taste. As one cus- ur family was recently blessed with the tomer remarked: “5 years later and this place hasn’t arrival of twin baby boys; new family changed at all, which members renew Navarro’s commitment is a good thing. Still Oto sustainable practices and a long term farming free wine tastings from vision. Spring is when we release wines produced in a long list to choose such small lots that we make them available to our from. 5 stars for great wine, and having over mailing list friends 15 wines to taste– on a first-come basis. for free.” This release includes three dry whites: a Roussanne-Marsanne blend inspired by the wines of the Rhône, Navarro’s value-packed Pinot Blanc and a crisp Riesling. Two Recent customer remarks vigorous red wines from the 2012 vintage and a blushingly pretty “All wineries need to be judged against Navarro. Period.” 2014 rosé are also available. A luscious Cluster Select Gewürztraminer is as sweet as the new babes. Pinot “We tasted everything from dry whites to bold reds, and came Blanc and Navarrouge are offered with case specials away with the impression that Navarro knows what they’re for $12.42 per bottle, a great way to celebrate the doing when it comes to wine. Everything from delicate pinot noirs birth of spring. The bargain priced samplers, full to a sweet muscato were beautifully described and balanced.” case specials and One-Cent ground freight on all case orders will be offered until April 30th on a “Navarro Vineyards won me over with its unpretentious tasting first-come basis. room vibe, its elegant, approachable wines…, its exquisite sur- roundings, and its progressive land and labor practices.” Cheers, “We stopped at a couple places along 128, but this one just blew Ted Bennett and Deborah Cahn us away.” Aaron and Sarah Cahn Bennett “A couple of girlfriends and I drove 170+ miles to buy some of their amazing grape juice!! Only to find their wine is just as amazing!!” 2014 Pinot Blanc Mendocino (Dry)

Navarro’s 2014 winery crush crew. Navarro employs four full-time winery workers The Pinot Blanc year-round, but is so quaffable at harvest, when that it seems to we are processing evaporate. We grapes, the crew decided that expands to about a bigger glass fourteen. If you would be in are in Philo at order; one that harvest, you may holds a full be pressed into 750 ml bottle service. of wine.

Young and pretty

his is our third vintage of Pinot Blanc from a small addition of Chardonnay, which fills out the Jason and Susanne McConnell’s well-tended mid palate and lengthens the finish. Pinot Blanc is not T vineyard in the Russian River watershed a varietal for the cellar; its beauty is in its freshness. near Ukiah and we are tickled by the consistent Although we’ve received comments on this wine that quality from vintage to vintage. The climate in are extremely flattering, one customer’s modest com- Ukiah is warmer than the Anderson Valley, espe- ment pretty much sums up our feelings: “straightfor- cially during harvest, and we didn’t want Septem- ward, refreshing and well made. perfect summer wine.” ber heat to burn off the variety’s There are no oak flavors to Spring Case floral, stone-fruit aromatics; we Harvested Sept. 5, 2014 beef up the weight or mask decided to harvest these grapes a Sugars at harvest 22.8° Brix the fruit. The wine is dry, SPECIAL! bit less ripe than we typically do Bottled Feb. 17, 2015 crisp and light enough to for Navarro’s Philo-grown whites. Cases produced 1157 pair with food on a warm Buy it by the case In retrospect, it was a good deci- Alcohol 13.4% summer day. Two prior for only $149.00; sion as our goal was to produce a Residual sugars 0.2% vintages (and hopefully this a savings of $31.00. crisp, refreshing white for spring Titratable acidity 7.0 g/L vintage) of Navarro’s Pinot That’s only $12.42 and summer. In all three vintages, pH 3.35 Blanc have garnered Gold per bottle. Navarro’s tasting panel has Price (750 ml) $15.00 Medals at the California preferred the Pinot Blanc with State Fair. 2013 White Roan 67% Roussanne 33% Marsanne Mendocino

Blending wines is serious business at Navarro and a great way to start the day.

Horse of a lighter color

his is our second harvest from Bonofiglio Vineyards; (double sized barrels) to age and rest on lees this field is planted exclusively to the white varietals for eight months. In April 2014, Navarro’s tasting T of Southern France. Based on our 2012 cuvée, we panel selected a cuvée of 67% Roussanne and 33% Andres Favela fixing decided to harvest the 2013 Marsanne a little less ripe to Marsanne; the wine was subsequently bottled in a problem with accentuate the blend’s tart lip-smacking structure. Mar- June. The Roussanne gives the blend nutty viscosity Navarro’s refriger- sanne was the first variety we harvested from Navarro’s and the Marsanne contributes ringing clarity making ation system. He is the whiz who keeps section of the vineyard; we crushed and destemmed four this pony an interesting Navarro glued to- tons on September 16. We waited two more weeks before Harvested Sept.16 & Oct.1,’13 alternative to Chardon- gether. Andres is in we picked the more flavorful Roussanne. Since we had Sugars at harvest 23.0° Brix nay. In 2013, we were charge of construction and maintenance but harvested the Marsanne with considerable acidity, we were Bottled June 25, 2014 only able to produce able to pick the Roussanne at higher sugars than we did about 60% of what we’re convinced that Cases produced 406 he can build or fix in 2012, to balance the Marsanne, while at the same time Alcohol 13.7% we did in 2012 and we just about anything. adding riper flavors. We harvested a little over seven tons Titratable acidity 6.8 g/L think this vintage is on October 1. After destemming and pressing, the juice pH 3.30 even better. Please order from both varieties was cool-fermented in stainless steel Price (750 ml) $19.50 promptly. Gold Medal tanks, then racked to seasoned French oak puncheons winner. Best of Class. 2013 Riesling Anderson Valley, Mendocino

Jim Klein installing a “fermentation trap” on an oval during fermenta- tion, which allows carbon dioxide to escape and keeps fruit flies out. Since some of the ovals are large, Spreading warm compost in with capacities up to 1,500 Navarro’s Campsite Riesling. gallons, the traps must also All of Navarro’s harvest be large to accommodate waste (grape skins, seeds, the amount of gas being stems and spent yeast) is generated. combined with farm animal manure, composted for two years, then returned to the vineyards to fertilize the Waste not, want not vines. After decades of this regime, we’re so pleased with he grape harvest was early in 2013, almost 3 weeks earlier than from our generously composted fields. Fermen- the flora that thrive in our vineyards we don’t attempt to 2012. We harvest Riesling from three vineyard blocks and three tation takes a painstaking month, but rather than knock off these wild yeasts by T Riesling clones are involved: ENTAV 49 is perhaps the most using the standard New World winemaking adding sulfur dioxide to the widely planted clone in Alsace, Neustadt 90 is a very aromatic clone protocol of racking the wine off the yeast, we harvested grapes. from Germany and FPMS10 is a UC Davis selection from a California emulate traditional vineyard. We harvested the grapes, keeping each field and block sepa- European winemaking rate throughout the winemaking process. The grapes were destemmed, and top-up the cask, pressed and the juice transferred to chilled leaving the wine to stainless steel tanks. After three days, the Harvested Oct. 3-8, 2013 rest sur lie for nine clear, cold juice was racked off the solids Sugars at harvest 23.6° Brix months. In the spring and transferred to French oak ovals. It takes Bottled May 9, 2014 of 2014, we selected a a couple days for the juice to warm up to Cases produced 1180 cuvée dominated by the an optimal fermentation temperature, so we Alcohol 13.5% fragrant Neustadt 90 wait before adding yeast. The delay between Residual sugars 0.65% clone. Crystalline fla- pressing the grapes and the addition of Titratable acidity 7.9 g/L vors of apple, lime and cultured yeast is typically four or five days; pH 3.20 peach with a tang that frequently the juice is already bubbling from Price (750 ml) $19.50 bounces on your tongue. an active fermentation created by wild yeasts Gold Medal winner. 2013 Gewürztraminer Cluster Select Late Harvest Anderson Valley, Mendocino

Newly hatched birds in our Pond vineyard. The top of the trunk in Na- varro’s Gewüztraminer vines are trained into two arms. Once the vine matures, the fork of the trunk becomes a perfect spot for birds to build a nest. A lot of birds are hatched in our insecticide-free vineyards, yet we don’t have a lot of bird dam- age at harvest.

Sugar babies Meet our newest sweethearts, n late September 2013, Zepher (left) and two weather events, a week Austin (right) Iapart, brought light precipi- Bennett White, tation and humid conditions born December that promote rot. Since most of 23, 2014. our grapes were already harvested free of rot, we hadn’t expected an October chance to produce late harvest we released last year. The ’13 was picked a month earlier Harvested Oct. 17, 2013 nectars from nobly-rotted Gewürztra- than the ’12 with substantially more acidity and slightly Sugars at harvest 33.2° Brix miner and Riesling. Gewürz has particu- more grape sugars. We decided to spotlight the grape’s Bottled Feb. 18, 2014 larly thick skins, not easily prone to rare but desirable acidity by encouraging the fermenta- Cases produced 529 rot, so typically we have to wait until tion to convert the extra sugars into alcohol. This left the Alcohol 10.4% November to harvest before significant wine with 4% less sweetness and 52% more acidity than Residual sugars 15.5% rot exists. There are downsides to pick- the 2012. The ’12 is rich and unctuous, whereas the ’13 Titratable acidity 13.8 g/L ing in November; the grape’s natural flaunts a scintillating yin-yang of sweetness counter bal- pH 2.99 acidity is reduced and inevitably some anced with acidity. Both vintages produced exceptional Price (750 ml) $69.00 fruit is lost to funky rot. It’s interesting wines with multiple Gold medals. Stock up since no (375 ml) $35.00 to compare the “specs” for our 2013 Cluster Select Gewürztraminer was harvested in 2014. Cluster Select Gewürz to the 2012 that Gold Medal winner. Best of Class. Navarro Samplers New wine releases at savings up to 24% No. No. No. 12, 6 bottles 12, 6 bottles 12, 6 bottles Samplers are pre-packaged and each contains wines in limited supply. All subject to prior sale. 4 5 6

Bill Mitchell, and the rest of Springtime Whites Red & Gold Sextet Solid Gold our staff, will be manning the White wines with an emphasis One or two bottles each of One or two bottles each of No. phones extra hours from 8 on crisp fruit flavors for spring- six Gold Medal winning red these six wines that have 1 12 bottles AM till 6 PM weekdays and time pleasure. Choose one or releases from the excellent earned a total of 20 Gold 9 AM to 6 PM weekends to two bottles each. 2012 vintage. Medals in National and help you take advantage of International competitions. Navarro Cellar bargain sampler prices and 2014 Pinot Blanc 2012 Syrah A bottle each of Navarro’s One-Cent ground shipping. Mendocino (Dry) Mendocino 2013 White Roan Navarro’s farm-direct wines nine new releases topped off 2013 White Roan 2012 Grenache Mendocino always represent an excellent with three Navarro favorites; Mendocino Mendocino value and our specially priced 2013 Riesling five robust reds, five crisp samplers feature discounts up 2013 Riesling 2012 Navarrouge Anderson Valley whites, a delightful rosé, to 24% until April 30. Anderson Valley Mendocino Red Table Wine 2012 Syrah and a luscious Cluster Select Mendocino Gewürztraminer. 2013 Gewürztraminer 2012 Pinot Noir No. Estate Bottled (Dry) Méthode à l’Ancienne 2012 Grenache 2014 Pinot Blanc 12, 6 bottles 2 2013 Pinot Gris 2012 Pinot Noir Mendocino Mendocino (Dry) No. Anderson Valley Anderson Valley 12, 6, 3 bottles 2012 Pinot Noir 2013 White Roan 3 New Dry Six 2013 Sauvignon Blanc 2012 Zinfandel Méthode à l’Ancienne Mendocino Choose either one or two Cuvée 128 Mendocino 2013 Gewürztraminer 2013 Riesling bottles each of six new dry Red, White, Rosé Cluster Select (375 ml) Anderson Valley releases; three crisp whites, a Choose either one, two or #4A—12 bottle Sampler #5A—12 bottle Sampler four bottles each of Navarro’s 2014 Rosé mouthwatering rosé and two $179.00 $225.00 #6A—12 bottle Sampler Mendocino (Dry) Gold Medal winning reds. most popular new wines; a crisp white, a robust red Savings of $43.00 Savings of $51.00 $239.00 2013 Navarrouge 2014 Pinot Blanc and a springtime rosé. Savings of $75.00 Mendocino Red Table Wine Mendocino (Dry) #4B—6 bottle Sampler #5B—6 bottle Sampler 2012 Syrah 2013 White Roan 2014 Pinot Blanc #6B—6 bottle Sampler Mendocino (Dry) $95.00 $117.00 Mendocino Mendocino Savings of $16.00 Savings of $21.00 2013 Navarrouge $135.00 2012 Grenache 2013 Riesling Savings of $22.00 Mendocino Anderson Valley Mendocino Red Table Wine 2012 Mourvèdre 2014 Rosé 2014 Rosé Mendocino Mendocino (Dry) Mendocino (Dry) 2013 Gewürztraminer 2012 Syrah Cluster Select (375 ml) Mendocino #3A—12 bottle Sampler Teresa Eligio usually ships Navarro wine in recyclable cardboard but 2012 Chardonnay 2012 Grenache $165.00 you may request styrofoam which Première Reserve Mendocino Savings of $29.00 offers better temperature protec- 2013 Gewürztraminer tion. Navarro’s website is available Estate Bottled (Dry) #2A—12 bottle Sampler #3B—6 bottle Sampler 24-7 at www.NavarroWine.com, but if you prefer talking to Teresa, 2012 Pinot Noir $199.00 $85.00 or other members of our friendly, Méthode à l’Ancienne Savings of $52.00 Savings of $12.00 well-informed staff, we can help you at 707-895-3686 or 800-537-9463 #1—12 bottle Sampler #2B—6 bottle Sampler #3C—3 bottle Sampler from 8 AM till 6 PM weekdays and $219.00 $109.00 $44.00 9 AM to 6 PM weekends. Savings of $60.00 Savings of $16.50 Savings of $4.50 2014 Rosé 83% Old Vine Grenache 17% Old Vine Carignane Mendocino

In Boontling, the local dialect developed at the turn of the century, “downstreamer” means “old timer.” We think this downstreamer vine has a lot of character. That’s why we love the fruit and the resulting rosé from Pallini’s ancient vines. Debbie Pallini and a load of grapes.

Downstreamer

e’ve purchased so they don’t get blended with Debbie’s. In our WDebbie 2013 rosé production, we discovered that the Pallini’s Grenache wine produced from Al Tollini’s grandfather’s Carignane grapes for almost two vines, planted in 1948, had a flavor profile that complemented decades; her gnarled, goblet-trained vines are now almost the Grenache. In 2014, we modified our winemaking regime seventy years old. We originally purchased these grapes for the Carignane rosé by decreasing the amount of time the to make red wine, but discovered in 2002 that the grapes skins macerated with the juice, from this vineyard produced exceptional rosé. We’ve never Harvested Sept. 22 & 28, ’14 resulting in a Carignane that is been advocates of “single vineyard” designations in Cali- Sugars at harvest 24.0° Brix more refined and delicate than fornia wines. Navarro’s experience is that wine is generally Bottled Feb. 16, 2015 what we produced in 2013. As improved by mixing vineyard clones, rootstocks and sites Cases produced 672 a result, Navarro’s 2014 Rosé and sometimes, even varieties. Although we only bottle one Alcohol 13.4% bottling is 17% Carignane which Mendocino rosé each vintage, we harvest, ferment and age a Titratable acidity 7.0 g/L adds delicate spring-herb flavors couple of other wines for blending possibilities with Debbie’s pH 3.24 and an enticing minerality, spec- Grenache. The majority of these wines have made disap- Price (750 ml) $17.50 tacular with a salmon and crab pointing additions when tasted blind by our tasting panel, risotto or cioppino. 2013 Navarrouge Mendocino Red Table Wine

Ted having fun. The reason Navarro harvests at night is Jim Klein inspecting because we prefer to begin Zinfandel vines after fermentation when the grapes pruning. The wine are cold, 59°F or lower. The produced from grapes growers we deal with are grown on mature small family operations and Zinfandel vines sometimes they have to pick constitutes the base during the day, delivering wine for this bottling. deliciously ripe grapes that The final blend is are warmer than we prefer. 40% Zinfandel, Our solution is to add dry 27% Pinot Noir, ice (frozen carbon dioxide 16% Grenache, seen here vaporizing) to 13% Carignane, the warm must to lower 3% Syrah and the temperature. After 1% Mourvèdre. the dry ice has chilled the grapes, the must already has a little red color (below).

More Pinot please

e’ve changed Navarro’s recipe for Navar- make an excellent Syrah replacement. Zinfandel rouge several times since our first vintage and Pinot Noir constitute 67% of this vintage Win 1992. In 2008, we made the decision with four other varieties making up the balance, in to make the dominant variety Zinfandel, with order of importance: Grenache, Carignane, Syrah Syrah as the second most important variety. We set and Mourvèdre. Each lot was fermented in open- out to find growers with old-vine Zin and Syrah top tanks then racked to seasoned French oak vines and, if the vineyards looked promising, we barrels to finish malolactic fermentation and age purchased their fruit for the base-wine in for 10 months. In late July 2014, Navarro’s tasting Spring Case our red table wine program through 2012. panel decided on the In the spring of 2013, we decided to make a Harvested Sept.10-Oct.9, ’13 final blend; the Navar- SPECIAL! change. We were pleased with Syrah’s black Sugars at harvest 24.2° Brix rouge was bottled a cherry flavors but the tannins were a little Bottled Aug. 20-22, 2014 month later in August. Buy it by the case too aggressive since we think Navarrouge Cases released 2697 Medium bodied backed for only $149.00; should be easy-to-drink in its youth. Navarro Alcohol 13.7% with soft tannins and a savings of $43.00. now has almost 50 acres of Pinot Noir Titratable acidity 6.2 g/L flavors suggesting That’s only $12.42 vineyards, and although they are our most pH 3.58 plum, blackberry per bottle. expensive grape variety, with their softer Price (750 ml) $16.00 and cranberry. Silver tannin structure and red cherry flavors, they Medal winner. 2012 Syrah 2012 Grenache Mendocino Mendocino

We purchase three grape va- rieties, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, from Jason Dolan’s biodynamically farmed Dark Horse Vineyards. Red wine- After the red fermen- making requires keeping the tation is complete, we juice in contact with the skins to rack off the free-run extract color and flavors; fer- wine and then shovel menting grape skins rise to the the pomace into bins top and must be re-introduced to for transport to the the juice. Rather than pumping presses. the red fermenting juice back over the top, we prefer to manually shove the skins back into the juice, which helps keep the tannins supple.

Horse of a darker color Red at full gallop

e never cease to be amazed at how wine varieties go in renache noir is France’s second most planted grape variety and out of fashion. While Pinot Noir sales increased after Merlot and thrives in the sun-soaked south of the Wthroughout California (and especially in the Ander- Gcountry, especially the Vaucluse département, where most son Valley), Syrah and Shiraz shipments, by volume, actually of the southern Rhône wines are produced. It is only the thirteenth decreased in 2013. Statistical data can be so frustrating; at the most planted grape in California and most of the red wine produc- same time that Syrah sales decreased, blended red shipments to tion is dedicated to budget priced blends. Very little domestic red California consumers had a hefty increase. To be sure, Navarro’s wine is labeled as Grenache. The name is more commonly associ- Navarrouge has a generous splash of Syrah and Grenache, but ated with a sweetish rosé, which probably discourages people from 2012 was such a warm and sun-drenched season, we wanted to tasting the red versions. Like the winemakers of the southern Rhône, let Navarro’s red Rhône varietals we found that Grenache-Syrah blends have solo appearances. Rich and Harvested Sept.27-Oct.1,’12 Harvested Sept.27-Oct.1,’12 make better wines than straight Gren- ripe, with middle-eastern spices Sugars at harvest 26.9° Brix Sugars at harvest 26.9° Brix ache. This bottling is 76% Grenache and a touch of violets and olal- Bottled Aug. 22, 2013 Bottled Aug. 22, 2013 and 24% Syrah, both grown in Dolan’s lieberry in the aromas, this wine is Cases produced 253 Cases produced 374 biodynamic Dark Horse Vineyards. It an example of some of the nicest Alcohol 14.7% Alcohol 14.6% was aged 10 months in French oak bar- grapes from Mendocino’s toasty Titratable acidity 6.0 g/L Titratable acidity 6.0 g/L rels and the wine has plenty of brawn Russian River Valley that should pH 3.73 pH 3.71 and bravado to match the heartiest stew never go out of fashion. Gold Price (750 ml) $27.00 Price (750 ml) $27.00 or the strongest aged cheese. Medal winner. Gold Medal winner. José Rodriguez harvesting Pinot StarWhite doing punch Noir at night. Floodlights illuminate downs. Navarro’s Zinfan- the area we are harvesting and each dels are fermented in open- picker wears a headlamp to light up top tanks and punched the individual clusters. Fermentation down by hand to keep the proceeds slowly when the must is tannins supple, then aged cool; an extended fermentation in French oak barrels for produces a more intense wine. eleven months.

Solid Gold current releases

2012 Pinot Noir 2012 Zinfandel Méthode à l’Ancienne, Anderson Valley, Mendocino Mendocino

e’ve been growing grapes in Philo for forty years and one of our goals his grape variety arrived in America in the late 1820’s, sent to a Long is to produce wines which reveal when and where these grapes were Island nurseryman who imported it from the Austrian Imperial nursery in Wgrown. Navarro’s 2012 Pinot marches to the beat of our own drum. T Vienna. After the California Gold Rush of 1849, shipments of New Eng- We did age the wine in expensive French oak barrels; forty percent were new land vine cuttings, some named Black St. Peters, were destined for San Francisco. and another forty percent were barrels only used once before, so there are Budwood was sold to the hundreds of unlucky prospectors who turned to farm- plenty of oak flavors in the wine. However, from years of experience, we select ing and it was in California that the grape soon became known as Zinfandel. barrels whose flavors mirror the flavor profile of our grapes, rather than adding After fermentation, the wine was aged in seasoned French oak barrels for eleven another layer of aggressive, smoky oak tones. This bottling is a complex cuvée months. The vines that produced this wine were planted in the 40’s and there is produced from sixteen well-regarded clone-rootstock combinations grown in nothing shy about this wine; big, bold with moderate tannin, rich texture and nine vineyard blocks in Philo. Gold Medal winner. 375 ml $16.00, 750 ml plenty of robust alcohol for a spicy lasagna. Gold Medal winner. Best of Class. $29.00, Magnum $59.00, Unfiltered 750 ml $31.00 750 ml $19.50

2012 Pinot Noir 2012 Zinfandel Deep End Blend, Anderson Valley, Mendocino Old Vine Cuvée, Mendocino

eep End is the Boontling phrase referring to the cooler end of Anderson he average age for the heritage Zinfandel vines that produced fruit for this Valley, the part closest to the ocean. In 1994, we developed new Pinot bottling is about 70 years. Older vines on rocky soils or hillsides generally DNoir vineyards on the hills above our tasting room; the vines in these T have an extensive root system. They don’t bear as much fruit as younger “ocean view” fields are cooled daily by breezes off the Pacific. The upper vine- vines, but with a deep root system, these old vines can deliver wines that, in addi- yards are divided into twenty-one individual blocks, each planted with a unique tion to tasting delicious, possess an interesting, well-etched flavor profile, vintage clone-rootstock combination. Every block was fermented as a separate lot; after vintage. The wine produced from Al Tollini’s vines, planted in 1932, always after eleven months aging, and two weeks of tastings, the Deep End cuvée was has earthy aromas that hint of cereal grain, mushroom and truffles. Ed Berry’s selected and blended from the best lots, then returned to barrel for an additional vines were planted in 1948 and we are always delighted at the intense, delicious five months of aging. The wine was fined with fresh egg whites then bottled, raspberry-blackberry fruit. We produced 150 barrels of Zinfandel in 2012, all unfiltered, to preserve its strength. Gold Medal winner. Best of Class. from vines over 60 years of age; the most flavorful 20 barrels were blended to 750 ml $49.00 produce this Old Vine Cuvée. Gold Medal winner. Best of Class 750 ml $27.00 Pennyroyal Farmstead Boonville, California

Erika with juvenile kids; the goats will be bred when they are two years old and become part of Pennyroyal’s flock. Goats are friendly espe- Skyler Bennett White cially when they have loves kids and lambs been treated as pets. and they love her.

Maternity leave

anuary and February are quiet with the start of kidding and lambing season months at Pennyroyal Farm, and our barns will be astir with bouncing kids PENNYROYAL’S JNavarro’s sister farm in Boonville. and frolicking lambs. Our cheese boards were Farm to Table Program Not only did our goats and sheep remarkably empty at the beginning of March, get time off for late pregnancy but, with only the aged Vintage and Reserve Boont this year, Sarah Bennett was busy at Corners still available, but we are gearing up to $199.00 Delivered!* home taking care of her new twins, start production of Pennyroyal Laychee, Bollie’s GUARANTEED FARM FRESH! and cheesemaker Erika McKenzie- Mollies, Velvet Sisters, Boonters Blue and Boont We pack cheeses with cold packs in Chapter took a deferred honeymoon Corners. Pennyroyal cheeses have been in high insulated containers, and ship using one-day service. Five times a year it to Poitou-Charentes, France, to visit demand, especially after kind reviews in Sunset, will arrive at your home or office the Fumaillou Farm, where she first Decanter, SF Chronicle and the LA Times. The fresh from the farm. Guaranteed! learned cheesemaking. Goats and best way to guarantee that you get to taste these *Northern California: $199.00 sheep, as well as people, need time handcrafted, local, seasonal cheeses at their peak West of the Rockies: $269.00 off to maintain vigor and health of flavor (and about a 20% discount) is to join East of the Rockies: $299.00 and it is the main reason we do not Pennyroyal’s Farm to Table Program. To join,

Cheese and wine must be shipped separately! milk at the start of each year. In mid- sign up at www.PennyroyalFarm.com or give March that will all rapidly change Navarro’s staff a phone call.